Acritopappus Explained

Acritopappus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae described as a genus in 1972.^{[1] [2] [3]}

The entire genus is endemic to Brazil.^[4]

Taxonomy

Species

, Plants of the World online has 19 accepted species:^[5]

Selected synonyms include:

• Acritopappus hagei - synonym of Acritopappus heterolepis

Notes and References

1. King . Robert Merrill . Robinson . Harold Ernest . 1972 . Studies in the eupatorieae (asteraceae) CIX . Phytologia . 24 . 401 .
2. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40031248 Tropicos, Acritopappus R.M. King & H. Rob.
3. D.J.N.Hind & H.E.Robinson. 2007. Tribe Eupatorieae In: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants vol.VIII. (Joachim W.Kadereit & Charles Jeffrey, volume editors. Klaus Kubitzky, general editor). Springer-Verlag. Berlin, Heidelberg.
4. Bautista . Hortensia P. . Ortiz . Santiago . Rodríguez-Oubiña . Juan . 2011 . A New Species of the Brazilian Endemic Genus Acritopappus (Compositae, Eupatorieae) from Minas Gerais . Systematic Botany . 36 . 1. 227–230 . 10.1600/036364411X553298 . 83581131 .
5. http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Acritopappus The Plant List search for Acritopappus